Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
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From: rrgill@shine8.uwaterloo.ca (CO350F Course - RR Gill)
Subject: Re: Advice requested for a new Mac programmer 
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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 90 03:18:40 GMT
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After 3 years as a Mac user, I want to begin writing my own Mac applications.
The question is which compiler to buy.  I have (or will have as soon as it
arrives) a Mac IIsi with 5 Meg, an 80 Meg hard drive and the Apple 13 inch
Hi-Res monitor.  I am leaning toward Think Pascal since Pascal is the language
in which the toolbox routines of Inside Macintosh are described.  My other
choice would be Think C (a more manly language as Im sure all Unix users would
agree).  The third option would be MPW but I think Ill stay away from that.
My question is "do I tend to lose anything from choosing Pascal over C?"
I prefer Pascal and think it would make it easier to become familiar with
the Mac toolbox calls.  I can always switch to C later when Im fluent with the
toolbox.  What about the efficiency of the compiled source?

Any responses?

Rich.